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‘Eat that frog’
2022/07/30 07:36 Filed in: Personal
Crazy Frog (originally known as The Annoying Thing) is an animated character and Eurodance musician. Marketed by the ringtone provider Jamba! the character was originally created to accompany a sound effect. My version was build to cheer up the desktop on your computer.
OMFG: Crazy Frog desktop icon.
Happy Mac
2022/07/17 13:28 Filed in: Personal
The ‘Happy Macintosh’; inspired by the ubiquitous round yellow smile face. Original design by Susan Kare, around 1984.
My preciousss!
2022/07/08 19:42 Filed in: Personal
Olijfje, Tijgertje and CoCo (Chanel); our cats. Arda says: “My preciousss!” (LotR)
Five days after publication on Divoom® Community: 1.6K views and many, many, likes! People simply love cats.
…after seven days: five medals!
Bring that retro look of the 80s to your desktop
2022/07/30 16:28 Filed in: Personal
Stop-motion proof for my pixel-typeface Matriks 2. A flexible, vintage type family developed for your day-to-day use on screen. Meticulously build on a 5×7 matrix: five pixels for x-height, plus one pixel for capitals and ascenders, and another pixel for descenders.
By just moving one pixel at a time, the Matriks fonts [Dunglish for Matrix] took shape. It is astonishing to see how far one can push the contours of the glyphs to sometimes weird graphics but still make us think we’re reading Roman characters! Bitmapping as an act of mindfulness and useful training in managing contrast.
Matriks 2 has two different pixel shapes: Square and Dot, and two weights: Normal and Bold. Special attention has been given to the Bold weights. In fact contrast in letterforms increases legibility! These designs are more detailed and work well as display fonts in larger sizes.
With more than 200(!) glyphs all the Matriks fonts contain a full Google Fonts Basic character set. Now add this retro look to your typographic palette and get your copies for 2.00 EUR per font (that’s less than 0.01 EUR per glyph). Just send me a DM: designisfijn[at]icloud[dot]com.